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There are 22 critical essays on The Awakening (novel).
Critical Essays on The Awakening (novel)
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 Critical Essay by Cristina Giorcelli
15,273 words, approx. 51 pages
 In the following essay, Giorcelli argues the Chopin's ambiguities in The Awakening support both her own and her protagonist's “cyclical view of existence.”
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Critical Essay by Patricia S. Yaeger
12,118 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Yaeger argues that language, not sexual liberation, is the element that makes The Awakening a “transgressive” novel.
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Critical Essay by Martha J. Cutter
11,618 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Cutter explores the differences in Chopin's portrayal of women in her short stories from that in The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Rebecca Aanerud
10,621 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Aanerud discusses the social, historical, and literary implications of “whiteness” in three works, including Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Elaine Showalter
8,943 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Showalter examines the ways in which Chopin defied the female literary tradition with The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Margit Stange
7,859 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Stange discusses representations of the female self in The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Lawrence Thornton
7,057 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Thornton examines Edna Pontellier's growing awareness of politics in Creole society in The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Wayne Batten
6,702 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Batten examines Chopin's ambiguity of meaning regarding the notion of illusion in The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Barbara C. Ewell
4,899 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Ewell argues that both The Awakening and Chopin were heavily shaped by the tradition of Southern American literature.
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Critical Essay by Emily Toth
4,319 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1976, Toth argues that The Awakening belongs to the didactic feminist tradition of women's literature.
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Critical Essay by Anna Shannon Elfenbein
4,013 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Elfenbein comments on Chopin's questioning of prevailing racial stereotypes, especially pertaining to women's sexuality, in her novel The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Anna Shannon Elfenbein
4,008 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Elfenbein contends that Chopin challenged American racist and sexist notions about sexuality in The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Carole Stone
3,770 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Stone views Chopin's birth imagery in The Awakening as symbolic of the birth of Edna Pontellier as an artist.
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Critical Essay by William Nelles
3,731 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Nelles argues that Edna's suicide at the conclusion of The Awakening is the result of her realization that she is pregnant.
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Critical Essay by Manfred Malzahn
3,512 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Malzahn examines the narrative of The Awakening for an explanation of Edna's motives for committing suicide.
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Critical Essay by Dieter Schulz
3,322 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Schulz explores similarities between The Awakening and other works written at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Critical Essay by Nancy Walker
2,706 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Walker explores ways to incorporate Chopin's New Orleans Creole setting into classroom discussion of The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Joyce Dyer
2,442 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, Dyer discusses the ways in which Chopin's use of setting in “A Shameful Affair” prefigures the symbolism of The Awakening.
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